Everyone is in love with everyone

The sky I saw last night,
The ripples on his face
Has washed so many sad memories.

in the stove
The intention of the fire,
Her breath
must be very sweet.
How do I know?
She is tickling the pot so tenderly
And the stew is cooking so well.


Whatever comes your path
whatever leaves you,
Be the song on your lips, my friend.
I can tell,
Everyone is in love
With everyone
Right now.

more stories

Speaking of poetry

Speaking with poetry

Speaking in poetry

I have some friends who said to me:

Your poetry is sweet and profound but we want to see

Them telling more stories.

To which I said:

I understand you completely, dear ones,

But I don’t have stories to tell any more

I have only life to share.

your finger bitter by a snake

You are not a loser.
You’re not the victim of your circumstance.
Let this not be your truth.
The one who is saying this to you
Is your own finger bitter by a snake.
The truth is
You’re a meadow
In which life happens.
Now let this clarity find you.
Let this arrow of knowingness
Split you open.

Don’t come to your kitchen

Don’t come to your kitchen
with a recipe.
A great chef does not make
the same soup Again.
Don't worry for lack of past experience
A word spoken from a place of silence
can heal a deep wound.

If you have not been torn

If you have not been torn and separated

How is it possible for you

 to recognized oneness with yourself?

If you have not been a captive

How do you know what freedom is?

If you have not seen poverty,

Can you feel abundance?

I witnessed the star falling down

From the sky and then

Turning to dust quickly.

The next moment I found myself

In the same chamber with the sun

Who said to me: -

You may not remember

Before I was sun, I was dust, falling from the sky

 And wallowing in the mud.

You know, falling is a sweet necessity and some agony too

Then you can rise again and shine

Like never before.

the organs in the body

All the organs in the body,
all the bones,
every single cell
and the hair on the skin, even the ones
that are beginning to gray: -
together are the orchestra
singing the abundance surrounding me
every moment.

ocean-divers

This continues to marvel me:-
The number of ocean-divers
is rising beyond statistics.
This is not because the ocean
wears a makeup to attract anyone.
She simply remained the same
And true to herself.

if a friend is missing

What is this in you,
radiant heart,
That opens me easily
As soon as I hear you?
What is this in you
than makes me want
to sit by you and sing
with the rising moon?

Some days thought says
you are not here, gone forever
not to return anymore.
Days and nights go by
without hearing from you.
I move deeper one more time
Beyond the stories of
birth and death,
beyond coming and leaving
beyond my world and your world.
Then here you are, my friend
never left, never missing.
Here you are, beloved.
Since then I tell everyone in the street:
If a friend goes missing
don't call the police,
Don’t do Google search.
go inside of you, instead.
She is there. He is there.

caterpillar

When a caterpillar
Longs for a sweet fragrance;
When a caterpillar
Yearns for honey,
She turns herself into
A butterfly and soars
Beyond all limitations.
This journey looks very simple and short
But it is very intense and revolutionary
And the road that leads back
To the caterpillar
Won’t exist any more.

clean up your furniture

The cliche
"let go of the past" means
There is a friend standing outside
knocking on your door
but the furniture in your room
is covered with dust and there is no
place for a new friend to sit
so please be passionate to yourself
clean up your furniture.

force of life

Who is saying
You are your life's circumstance,
your relationships,
your credit history,
your political issues?
Who is saying?
Please don't listen my friend.

The truth is
You
are the force of life,
Pure water in the desert
A word that has not been spoken yet.
As as soon you know this
Even your sorrow sparkles
like the face of the full moon
in the night sky

out-of-body experience

You often
marvel at the out-of-body experience.
Inside your body
there is the arc of the covenant,
there is fountain of light
that can lit up the entire sky.
There is arboretum
where flowers and bushes and trees
are happy.
Open this up and see
for yourself.
You will be speechless.

camel

Let's not be a camel
that carries so much gold
on her back
and dies from hunger.

in the lap of your heart

Cuddle yourself
warmly, intimately and deeply in the lap of your heart
then
even homelessless cannot
deprive you from your true home.
prison cells cannot keep you
a prisoner.

words

watch
for the language
you use in your daily life.
Make sure they are coming
from a place of tenderness.
Remember:
Negative words
can alter the chemical composition
of the sun.
They have the potential to
wrinkle the sea
dent the mountains
and crack the earth.

Your very presence

Your very presence among us, at this moment
Is the hint of truth, a little stream of light.
By delving deeper into your intense longing.
Longing, once she is recognized,
There will be no longing any more.
Then, the truth completes her own song.

If you’ve the courage

Some people lament saying
“Gone are the days
When we were desirable
wild and happy.”
While some say
“Tomorrow is going to be great!”

All these are clouds in the mind.
They become your truth however
If you are incurably identified with them.

If you’ve the courage
to stay alive just for a moment, just for now,
The flower inside of you can confuse
All your past and your future.

riding on a horse

This is love,
what else can we say,
dear one?
throwing oneself
on the arms of the beloved.
riding on a horse
that is not trained,
That is not reigned.
That is not saddled
Feeling the wild prancing,
jumping up and down,
and the piercing of knee jerks.
Feeling the source of innocence through
the first word ever uttered,
like the first snow flecks
falling on warm lips
and blushing and then melting away
when the entire world stands on one leg and disappears
in the quiver of touching passionate hands.
Who can explain the depth
of this beauty other than
vast silence!

while everyone is watching

Make love
to the sweet eyed one
without fear,
Not in the dark, when the sun
is down, when everyone is asleep
but in the public
in broad day light
while everyone is watching.
That is
how you can make the entire galaxy
catch the fire of love
and dissolve.

The Nile

When the time is right
The Nile himself will stop wandering
in the desert carrying mud and silt.
When the time is right
the Nile will stop dreaming
and pump his last drop
into the ocean.
Now we all have grown up
and it is time to stop talking.
Let the beautiful one speak through us.
Let him settle in, rise and then
start a revolution inside us.
Let him build the fire
that burns everything
that is not real.

if my dance is different from yours

Your blind side is here, my dear friend:
You cooperate with the mind and let the appearance fool you.
Then you pass a judgement that is punitive and harsh.

Be fearless. Don't stagger the grace of light.
Don't be shy to sit in the meadow where dandlions bloom,
as if they are strangers.
Come inside my room and have coffee with me
and you will see if my dance is different from yours
if my laughter is different from yours
if my longing is different from yours.

oasis in the desert

Some times a person who's very close to your heart might say something unkind to you. What comes to the mind immediately is to react using more unkind words. This is called defense. That is the way of the egoic mind. Defense. Who are you defending yourself from? who are you fighting? Have you seen the earth defending herself from earthquake? Have you ever seen someone who fought cancer and won...? Have you?
It is important instead to watch where these feeling is arising from. The person who is saying harsh words to you, is the part of you that needs healing. It is your own shadow hungry for some light, craving for a clean glass of water. Can you be the light for him? Can you be the oasis in the desert? Can be a space where the healing happens quickly?

Like an arrow

Like an arrow
Flung with great precision and focus
Your radiance struck me hard
And found my center.
This was followed by
All logical arguments and reasoning
Falling off my hand and
crushing On the ground.
I won't ask
what is coming next
and I don't I care
to know.
I am just dazzled by this
Very moment.

You barter your gold

You've been doing
a lot of forgetting, my friend.
You look for a broken glass
under the rose of garden.
You barter your gold with another gold
because the mind tricks you into believing
that your gold is less shiny than that of your neighbor.
The one who brings clarity to your eyes,
the one who sends sweetness to your lips
and the one who perfumes your breath with fire
is kissing your forehead

to wake you up from your deep sleep.

we became the song

Every being was moving but it was
Towards one another.
We were not just dancing
 we became the dance itself
We were not just singing. We became the song itself.
All the words have left our mouth.
We were drunk and yet we still know
Where the home is.
Our feet touched something and came to a complete stop.
It was the supreme crochet in the center,
holding all things together.
and we could not walk away from here.
How can we walk away from here?
We kept coming closer

and closer and closer....

tulip's bulb

A flame caught me this morning
and I fell down on a tulip's bulb
who said to me:
Look! you are not alone;
I am on flame too.
Do you think this meeting
is accidental?

Be alive

The ocean
Is more than enough for all of us.
Why do you prefer to live in the puddle?
Often times, you spend so much energy to be
Who you are not
Truth to tell, who you are does not demand anything.
It does not need a driver’s license nor the owner’s manual.
Be simple, organic and undiluted.
Be inflammably, insanely alive.
You will see ifthe ego does not
Crumble and melt under your feet.

what is real

You plan a lot, my friend,
you set goals after goals after goals and
Your table staggers with your to-do-list
and you think you’re running behind.

Now
Forge your friendship with this moment
And ask your heart
to show what is real
Then the mind turns into
A brilliant, humble servant
Not a tyranic master any more.

time to go for a walk

Evening has come

 and sweet mouthed one

 has returned to the village.

Stars are out again. The sky, standing fearlessly naked,

 paints himself with love.

What else does he know other than love?

Underneath, flew the birds following the song

 They heard last night before they went to sleep.

Life is so beautiful my friend. Life is delicious.

 My feet want to fondle the ground this evening.

It is time for me to go for a walk.

horse racing

I know not
what happened exactly
but as soon as
I felt your presence
Something from inside
That seemed to be
under a thousand locks
Cracked open and whispered;

Listen! Don't tell anyone
you saw me. I can be contagious.
I can spread like forest fire
and drive millions wild with love.

As soon as
I smelled you in the distance,
The seas started rising and rising until
they flooded the houses
built on worries and grief;
and the winds carried your scent
and went horse racing.

If you already know so much

If you already know so much
about things,
How are you going to know
yourself?
if only you've courage to

open your door,
a friend will emerge
to clean your crowded room.

heart of the porridge

Ask the heart:
Is your sobriety and decency
serving the purpose you are here?
Is it pointing to the song that is hidden from you?
It is not enough to be a wine expert.
Be drunk and merge with the wine itself
Then spill kindly and pour into yourself.
Drop the last layers of your garment
And look how beautiful you are.
For love’s sake, don’t save this drunkenness for tomorrow.
Hold the spoon firmly and delve it into the heart
Of the porridge.

What is there I cannot be for you today?

What is there I cannot do for you, dear one?
What is there I cannot be for you?
I can be a clear water and good soil and light too

You can enter me, germinate, blossom
And explode and scatter yourself around
until the world can hardly contain
your aroma .
There is no shortage of space here.
What is there
I cannot be for you today, dear one?

a path from your heart into your heart.

Isn't it amazing?
This trip from the old year
into the new one? from there to here,
from here to here, from then to now, from now to now.
Isn't it amazing?
If we move slightly deeper inside,
we cannot see the old year nor the new one.
Time does not exist from this place.
We can only find a room filled with sweet light
where you and I sit and share wine from the same cup.
Isn't it amazing? this road?
Truth to tell, I have grown so much
in this daily sharing of love with you.
I cannot explain this using words.
I have experienced so much deepening, beyond a thousand
layers of the sky, beyond the splendor the suns
I am grateful to Astroid, my wife, Homa, my daughter
and all of you here, for being a serene space
for me to grow.
This road is amazing
whether it is long or short,
whether it is bumpy or smooth,

it is a path from your heart
into your heart.